Over the next several years, the FAS Research Development group will track and disseminate all funding opportunities related to the BRAIN Initiative. These funding opportunities will be sent to a targeted list of faculty. That list includes faculty affiliates of the Center for Brain Science (CBS) and the Mind Brain Behavior (MBB) Interfaculty Initiative. This project is being carried out in collaboration with the Center for Brain Science. All opportunities will be archived and recipients may unsubscribe at any time.
NIHR25
National Institutes of Health
BRAIN Initiative: Short Courses in Computational Neuroscience (R25) 
Sponsor Deadline for LOIs (requested): October 6, 2015
Sponsor Deadline for Full Applications: November 6, 2015
OSP Deadline: October 30, 2015
Award Information: Maximum of $200,000 in direct costs annually for up to 3 years

The NIH Research Education Program (R25) supports research education activities in the mission areas of the NIH. The over-arching goal of this BRAIN Initiative R25 program is to support educational activities that complement and/or enhance the training of a workforce to meet the nation's biomedical, behavioral and clinical research needs. To accomplish the stated over-arching goal, this FOA will support creative educational activities with a primary focus on Courses for Skills Development. This FOA will support short courses to facilitate the development of a sophisticated cadre of investigators with the requisite knowledge and skills in computational neuroscience perspectives and techniques for analyzing and interpreting complex, high-dimensional neuroscience data to advance the BRAIN Initiative. For the purposes of this FOA, computational neuroscience encompasses theoretical neuroscience, computational and mathematical modeling of neural systems, and/or statistical perspectives and techniques. Each short course is expected to include both didactics and in-person/hands-on experiences. This FOA is intended for participants who are graduate students, medical students, postdoctoral scholars, medical residents, and/or early-career faculty.

A major goal of the BRAIN Initiative is to attract new investigators to neuroscience from quantitative disciplines such as computer science, mathematics, physics, statistics, materials science, and engineering. As such, plans to recruit participants with these diverse scientific backgrounds to the proposed short courses are strongly encouraged.      
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Contact Us:
Questions about this announcement or proposal submission may be directed to Jennifer Corby
([email protected], 617-495-1590) or Susan Gomes ([email protected] 617-496-9448).

 

For Research Development Support (Finding Funding, Proposal Development Resources), go to research.fas.harvard.edu/research-development-support